Ray Nagin held in contempt

[Gunslinger]

This article put a long forgotten battle into perspective when you really think about the line that I put in bold.  Surly there was be such an uproar (as there was during the crisis) if certain other civil rights violations took place.  I hope the city gets hammered for this.  I can't think of a better time to be armed.

A United States District Judge in New Orleans has granted a motion to hold Mayor C. Ray Nagin and Police Superintendent Warren Riley in contempt for failure to provide initial disclosures and answers to discovery in a lawsuit filed by the Second Amendment Foundation.
Judge Carl J. Barbier issued a blistering rebuke to New Orleans’ defense counsel for conduct that is “wholly unprofessional” and warned that it “shall not be condoned.” Judge Barbier ordered defense counsel to reimburse SAF’s attorney $1,365. SAF is joined in the lawsuit by the National Rifle Association.

In his ruling, Judge Barbier noted, “Defense counsel has caused time and money to be wasted by Plaintiffs’ counsel and further admits that he has ‘no good reason’ to explain his behavior.”

“Throughout the past 17 months,” said SAF founder Alan M. Gottlieb, “our attorneys have acted professionally and they have been stonewalled or ignored by the city and especially its defense attorney. This seems to be the only thing that gets their attention, and it appears that Judge Barbier’s patience has grown as thin as our own.”

“We gave New Orleans every opportunity to act like adults and deal with this lawsuit in a professional manner,” Gottlieb said, “and they’ve acted as if this case didn’t exist. Judge Barbier’s ruling is a wake-up call.

“They seem to forget that we went to court over a serious civil rights violation,” Gottlieb continued. “In the days following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans dispatched police officers and National Guard troopers to confiscate firearms. In many cases, citizens were disarmed at gunpoint, without warrant and without probable cause. Nagin and Riley, and every other official in New Orleans who was part of this outrage, need to understand that the Constitution may not be suspended in New Orleans or anywhere else by a natural disaster, or on somebody’s whim.

“This is the first step toward forcing New Orleans to return seized firearms to their rightful owners, and in our effort to find out who issued that illegal order, and hold them responsible,” Gottlieb stated. “We will not rest until this case is resolved.”

Sorry if this is a re-post

[Black Sheep]

Regardless of 2nd amendment rights, I bet alot of people are still alive there today because of this disarming.

[NOT]

Regardless of 2nd amendment rights, I bet alot of people are still alive there today because of this disarming

Doubt it, only law abidding citizens were affected. Criminals will have theirs regardless of laws.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by BMnot
Doubt it, only law abidding citizens were affected. Criminals will have theirs regardless of laws.

Damn right.
the real question should be how many are dead because of this disarming that might have otherwise had the opportunity to defend themselves

[rpm]

Want to bet they return the firearms in unusable condition? One of the local PD's recently destroyed about 2 dozen stolen firearms with a chop saw. Said it was against department policy to return guns to the street. How about contacting the rightful owner and giving the weapon back??

[BTW]

You have no idea just how bad it is down here.

We have a moron in the mayors office, a moron for a police chief,  anda moron in the DA's office.

We have seven police officers indicted for a self defense shooting incident after Katrina. Four are indicted for first degree murder.

http://www.danziger7.com/
http://signal26.com/

The same DA who is intent on putting the policemen in jail is letting the cop shooters (and every other thug) out of jail.

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl021407jbpoliceshot.840968cf.html
http://pano1544.com/forums/showthread.php?t=292

And our police chief has no crime fighting plan that can see beyond 90 days.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1171349159298340.xml&coll=1

And the sad thing is all of these people are untouchable because of the block vote mentality that keeps them in office.